For business to move at the speed of cloud, infrastructure agility and consistency is key. Configuration management tools address rapidly changing infrastructure needs by providing a template for repeatable deployment thus preventing any environmental drifts and discrepancies. HPE Storage Toolkits for Configuration Management enables popular configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet and Ansible to treat storage as a programmable resource, eliminates barrier between Developers and Operations by enabling self-service storage automation.. HPE Storage Toolkits for Configuration Management such as HPE 3PAR Cookbook for Chef or HPE Nimble playbook for Ansible provides blueprints to automate complex storage management tasks eliminating time consuming and error-prone manual tasks.

What's new

• HPE 3PAR Cookbook for Chef

• HPE 3PAR module for Puppet

• HPE 3PAR module and playbook for Ansible

• HPE Nimble playbook for Ansible

• HPE Nimble module for Puppet

Features

Automate Complex Storage Tasks, Deploy Consistent Storage Using Configuration Management Tools

HPE 3PAR Cookbook for Chef provides ready made blueprint to automate storage management tasks including volume provisioning, management, and monitoring from Chef.

HPE 3PAR module for Puppet enables automation of storage management tasks including storage volume, snapshot and clone life cycle management, host and port management tasks on HPE 3PAR StoreServ arrays.

HPE 3PAR module and playbook for Ansible enables developers and operations to automate storage management tasks including storage volume, snapshot, and clone life cycle management, host and port management tasks on HPE 3PAR StoreServ arrays.

Integrate storage into DevOps pipeline automation for faster application deliveries

Leverage powerful REST APIs to provision, manage, monitor storage functions for HPE 3PAR and HPE Nimble Storage.

Enable self-service storage provisioning by developer teams using HPE Storage SDKs for HPE 3PAR to automate storage functions in native programming languages including Ruby, Python and Powershell.

Technical Specifications

Version

• Chef >= 12.x Puppet >= 5.0.0 Ansible >= 2.5 Ruby 2.4.1 or later Python 2.7 or later

Supported hardware environment

• HPE 3PAR StoreServ 9450 HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20800 R2 HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000 HPE 3PAR StoreServ 20000 HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7000 HPE 3PAR StoreServ 10000

Supported operating systems

• HPE 3PAR OS versions v.3.3.1 MU1, MU2 v.3.2.2 MU6